Abstract
The objective of the present study elucidates changes in pure water permeability after plasma contact and adsorption capacity of serum albumin on dialysis membranes. Both reduction percentage (RP) of pure water permeability and adsorbed amount of bovine serum albumin (BSA) were determined for nine dialysis membranes including high flux membrane. The amount of BSA adsorbed on high flux membrane (BK-1.0) is three order of magnitude higher than that on the other membranes. Pore plugging causes a lowering of pure water permeability of treated membranes. Values for BSA adsorption capacity of PMMA, EVAL, CA and RC membranes decrease in that order.
